Android Studio – Kotlin – Global Variables and Functions

I am so, so new to (a) Android, (b) Java and Kotlin, (c) classes, and so much more.
Yet, I trying to get a basic app going (which it is) on my tablet, and I want to have the equivalent of a global variable to use / share between the various activities.
And because I know so little, any of the solutions I find are missing some basic info that I need. So if anyone can help me that would be really nice 🙂

So, let’s say I have two activities, and I want one global variable, e.g. mainNavState

So what I did was the following:
In Android Studio, in the project folder, I right-clicked where the activities are, and selected New -> Kotlin Class File. I called in GlobalStuff.
Not very inspired, I know.
The contents of this new file are:

package com.example.myProj

public class GlobalStuff {

    var mainNavState: Int = 0

    public fun get_mainNavState(): Int {
        return mainNavState
    }

    public fun set_mainNavState(newState: Int) {
        mainNavState = newState
    }

}

And now I try and use these functions from my activities.

So, in one activity, I do the following:

import com.example.myProj.GlobalStuff as glob

And then to call the functions:

navState = glob().get_mainNavState()

although I can’t call the ‘set’ function:

glob().set_mainNavState(1)

it expects a member declaration.

So this is all basic stuff that I am trying to get a grasp on. AT some stage I can sit down and go through a course on Kotlin methodically etc., but for now I just want to get something basic going.

Things I might be doing wrong:

Perhaps I have created the wrong file TYPE for my global functions? It is a Kotlin Class file.
Perhaps I need to instantiate it somewhere? Since I am defining a class, but not an actual instance of it?

Thanks for any help 🙂

Garrett

>Solution :

Kotlin is much simpler. Don’t create a class but an object:

object GlobalStuff {
    var mainNavState: Int = 0
}

And use it like this from another class:

GlobalStuff.mainNavState = 1
val x = GlobalStuff.mainNavState